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I have an even harder time now since one of my cars automatically locks when I walk away while the other doesn't. I've been so spoiled by that functionality.

Luckily the other car will at least notify me if I leave it unlocked and can lock it through my phone. Would be nice if it just also auto-locked.

My not-even-all-that-new car just locks automatically shortly after you close the door, so there's nothing to "forget".

You don't have ADHD I guess?

> that can be done with a key-press on a key

Only if you're like right next to the car. I prefer to remote start my car when I'm more than a few minute walk away from it so it actually has a chance to warm up or cool down. Starting it ten seconds before I get to the car is practically worthless.

BMW - the car unlocks the doors when I approach and auto locks the doors when I move away from the car, so generally I never interact with 'locking' at all. Except when this doesn't work, for instance, if the boot is open because I'm getting shopping out, then I close the boot and walk away, quite often it will not lock at that point, perhaps because I moved away from the door but it didn't lock because the boot was open. The app is useful so that I can firstly check the car is locked, and secondly lock it. I personally have no need to unlock remotely - maybe my wife might say 'hey I need to get something from your car' and I'm not around? But I've never needed that yet. My wife's Hyundai has told me via the app 'hey you've left the car unlocked' and I've been able to lock it remotely. So definitely in favour of that feature.